By the end of this month, the network slates for next season will be set. The fate of this year’s ratings weaklings will be known. For now, a slew of TV shows are considered “on the bubble,” hoping for renewal, fearing cancellation.

Those I’m most worried about are ABC’s “Cougar Town,” which has chronically lousy ratings (TBS on Thursday saved “Cougar Town,” picking up the series and acquiring rights to all reruns, and a fourth season of “Cougar Town” will premiere in early 2013 on the cable network), “Happy Endings,” which is really hitting its stride, and three on NBC: “Awake,” which is a taut conspiracy thriller inside a dense set of mind games, “Bent,” a promising sitcom that wasn’t afforded a good launch, and “Rock Center,” the very good Brian Williams news magazine that’s been bounced from timeslot to timeslot and deserves better. Fox’s “Touch” will probably be back and CBS could go either way on the “CSIs.”

Otherwise, I can’t get worked up about the likely cancellations.

But every series is someone’s favorite. So how do you feel about these “on the bubble” shows?

“Judas,” a new novel by Amos Oz, is a paradox of stillness and provocation. The Israeli author, a long-rumored contender for the Nobel Prize, has reduced the physical action of this story to a tableau of domestic grief.